Obesity and genetics with Dr Giles Yeo
The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Are our genes to blame when our jeans don’t fit? Liz is joined by geneticist and BBC presenter, Dr Giles Yeo, to debunk weight-loss myths, disprove fad diets and discuss how genes influence our eating habits.
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| 0:00.0 | New Epic eats banging barbecue from McCoy's. |
| 0:04.6 | Fire up your taste but with a blend of smoky, sweet and subtle spice. |
| 0:10.2 | Epic flavor, epic crunch, epic eats, because only the real McCoy's tastes like the real McCoy's. |
| 0:20.0 | This episode is brought to you by the Woodland Trust. |
| 0:25.0 | With festivities right around the corner, my mind has turned once again to Christmas shopping. |
| 0:31.0 | What to buy for my children, my loved ones, |
| 0:33.2 | ones, friends. Men, in particular, are a real bother to buy for. |
| 0:37.8 | What on earth do they want? |
| 0:39.8 | Booze, socks. Well the Woodland Trust, the UK's largest woodland conservation charity, have greatly |
| 0:46.8 | helped me to buy more original well-being boosting gifts by offering the chance to dedicate a tree or an area of woodland to someone we love. |
| 0:56.7 | This can be done with a suggested donation from just 20 pounds per tree, a thoughtful and affordable |
| 1:02.4 | gift that supports the vital work of the Woodland Trust, |
| 1:06.0 | looking after our planet, ecosystems and providing homes to woodland wildlife. |
| 1:11.5 | I plan to complete the present with a new year walk to |
| 1:14.8 | visit my loved one's dedicated trees and partake in a touch of forest bathing. |
| 1:19.7 | We'll start 2024 as we mean to go on, outdoors and surrounded by nature. |
| 1:26.0 | The Woodland Trust look after over a thousand woodlands in the UK, |
| 1:30.3 | and they're all free to visit any time, so there's likely to be one a stones throw from you. |
| 1:35.6 | So what are you waiting for? |
| 1:37.6 | Dedicating is quick and easy to do. |
| 1:39.8 | Just head to woodland trust..org. UK forward slash festive. Hello and a very warm welcome back to Wellness with Liz Earl and today I'm |
| 1:59.5 | joined by University of Cambridge geneticist and BBC presenter Dr Giles |
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